Cortex Consumers

Downstream consumers of Cortex. Consumer docs show how products and libraries attach domain semantics, policy, tools, persistence, or reasoning workflows to the substrate.

On this page
  1. Documented consumers
  2. What belongs here
  3. Adding a consumer
  4. Related

Cortex Consumers

Cortex is a generic AI substrate; consumers bind it into downstream libraries or product-specific runtimes. These pages show binding patterns without making any consumer the frame for Cortex itself.

Documented consumers

  • Logos - downstream reasoning library. Shows how reusable model-mediated workflows, archetypes, memory, and patterns sit above Cortex without becoming substrate runtime authority.
  • Portman - private downstream example. Shows how one product binds Cortex to product policy, artifacts, persistence, and Pulse host actions.
  • Quantum - consumer binding example. Shows how Wire can author quantum circuit topology while a host owns gate semantics and backend execution, including a local Qiskit simulator bridge.

What belongs here

Consumer-specific design docs that describe:

  • How the consumer binds Cortex’s runtime seams.
  • Library or product-domain extensions, such as host-specific contracts, tools, reusable reasoning patterns, and report shapes.
  • Domain-specific decisions, such as how host policy attaches to Cortex actions.
  • Consumer-side workflow specs built on Cortex primitives.

What does not belong here: generic Cortex substrate concerns, which stay in Architecture/ or Reference/.

Adding a consumer

Start with one page under Consumers/{Name}.md. Create a subdirectory only when the consumer is public enough and broad enough to justify a multi-page binding reference.